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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS SCRAPBOOK1934Tarzan and His Mate VII

From the Montreal Star ~ April 20, 1934Surely nothing but a grossly exaggerated view of Nazi
Germany could ever have prompted the Berlin Film Board to ban the American-made
picture, "Tarzan of the Apes," a film version of one of Edgar Rice Burrough's
[sic] weird romances of the West African jungle. The reason given
in the board's decision is that the picture in question is "dangerous to
Nazi principles of race-conciousness, offensive to ideals of matrimony
and womanly dignity," and "dangerous" because "the German nation's sensibilities
have been sharpened as regards questions of hereditary biology."
This sort of thing would move to laughter but for the fact that it is obviously
intended as no jest but in deadly earnest. When will Hitler's Nazis
learn to develop a sense of humor?